By Torsten Adair
The following is a selection of new comics titles due to be published in November 2010. This list is not comprehensive, as there are over 350 books scheduled. Instead, I have selected titles which caught my interest. If you would like to browse forthcoming graphic novels and related books at your leisure, click here. These are not necessarily titles I will purchase, but which I will definitely look at once they arrive at my local comics shop or bookstore.
This month is traditionally the last month of new releases before the holiday gift giving season kicks into full gear. Stores (and websites) usually have their displays set up the first weekend after Halloween, and publishers definitely want their titles in stores before Black Friday (and Cyber Monday). There are a few titles scheduled for December, so I’ll present a list for that month. I will also present a special list of blockbuster titles (gift books priced over $40) for those who have either been especially good this year or who shop for themselves.
Please be advised that publication dates are not set in stone, titles may change, and covers may be altered. Also, your local comics shop might receive copies before your local neighborhood website or library. Clicking on the publisher’s name will link to the publisher’s website, sometimes to the exact title. Clicking the ISBN-13 (also known as the Bookland EAN) will take you to the title as featured on BarnesAndNoble.com . I consider my tastes to be rather eclectic. If you feel I’ve neglected or slighted a title, publisher, or creator, please feel free to mention it in the comments below. Yes, you may promote your own work, but please include the ISBN for easy searching (and shopping!)
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The Great Treasury of Christmas Comic Book Stories
by John Stanley, Walt Kelly, Dan Noon, and many more!
- Pub. Date: November 2010
- Publisher: Idea & Design Works, LLC
- Format: Hardcover, 176pp
- ISBN-13: 9781600107733
- ISBN: 1600107737
King Aroo, Volume 2
by Jack Kent
- $ 39.99
- Pub. Date: November 2010
- Publisher: Idea & Design Works, LLC
- Format: Hardcover, 360pp
- ISBN-13: 9781600107825
- ISBN: 1600107826
9 Comments on Coming Attractions: November 2010, last added: 11/2/2010
If you’ve never read Mark Schultz’s Xenozoic Tales comic book, I’d highly, highly recommend the Xenozoic collection. Even if you don’t want to read the story, the lush artwork alone is worth the cover price.
Also, that “75 Years of DC Comics” looks cool, but $200? Holy crap!
Wow, a $100 hardcover reprint of the Incal? What are the chances that it will have the original, legible coloring? (I know, I know… slim and none…)
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Dara, I saw an air-freighted copy of the Taschen book at NYCC. Not only is the thing HUGE (click the Taschen link to see Paul Levitz holding the book), it is THICK and chock full of behind the scenes information. If I cannot convince my family to pool their money and get this for me, then I’ll buy it myself. And spend the next year reading two pages a day.
(Remember the Saturday Morning cartoon, “Cadillacs and Dinosaurs”? It was based on “Xenozoic Tales”.)
Scratchie, the Humanoids’ Editor’s Blog has a preview of the final book. I don’t have my Epic copies to compare, but it doesn’t look too bad. Also, given the scarcity of Moebius in the English market, I’m happy to see anything.
@Torsten: yeah, I did watch a couple episodes of Cadillacs and Dinosaurs (I think it was on CBS, right?) but found them severly lacking. However, I was a big enough fan (read: geek) to buy the Songs from the Xenozoic Age music CD!
Further nerd trivia: Bill Mumy also plays on the CD.
Interesting. Thanks, Torsten. I needed another $100 hardcover to buy!
I just compared a few pages with my Epic copies and they look good. I can’t find my DC reprints to compare *those* (they’re probably holding up a table leg somewhere) but the pages I was able to find in a few minutes flipping seem to match the Epic version pretty closely. This is actually exciting, for my sense of aesthetics, if not my bank account.
No need to know a lot of French to get the gist of it:
http://www.humano.com/album/35633
Le classique de Moebius et Jodorowsky enfin restauré dans ses couleurs d’origine. C’est à un véritable travail de Bénédictin que s’est livré l’éditeur : remise en état des planches, repérage et restauration des couleurs originales. C’est d’une certaine manière l’édition ultime de L’Incal en édition intégrale, celle qui fera référence par sa fidélité aux originaux de l’époque.
Google Franch:
“The classical Moebius and Jodorowsky finally restored in its original colors. This is a real work of Benedictine that has engaged the editor: restoration of the plates, identification and restoration of the original colors. This is somehow the ultimate edition of The Incal in edition, which will refer its fidelity to the originals of the time. The next step of this huge renovation project will focus on separate volumes, including the reissue, with coverage of the first edition is also planned from 2011.”